Receptacle



Feb. 27, 1923.

J. RAGGIO ET AL.

RECEPTACLE. FILED JAN. 25, 1922.

WITNESSES Patented Feb. 27, 1923.

L sa a r- 11 RECEPTAQILE.

To all w}: 072M125 may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES Raceroand FRANK B'oncronnnmitizens of the United States,'iand residents of the city of New York. borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Receptacle, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. 7

This invention has relation to receptacles and has particular reference to a receptacle for water or liquids provided with means for cooling and maintaining the contents cold.

One of the principal objects of the present invention resides in the provision of a receptacle for drinking water which includes a separate compartment for ice as a cooling medium, whereby the practice of placing the ice directly in the water is eliminated.

As a further object the invention aims to provide means for receiving and drawing off the water resulting from the melting of the ice from the remainder of the ice without the necessity of emptying the receptacle proper.

\Vith the above recited and other objects in view, the invention resides in the novelconstruction set forth in the following specification, particularly pointed out in the appended claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, it being understood that the right is reserved to embodiments other than those actually illustrated herein to the full extent indicated by the general meaning of the terms in which the claims are expressed.

In the drawing- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a receptacle constructed in accordance with the invention.

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view thereof taken approximately on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. 1

Referring to the drawings by characters of reference, 10 designates a receptacle such as a pitcher, bottle, or other similar article, which in the present instance is especially designed to contain drinking water or any other drinking fluid. The receptacle 10 is provided with a centrally disposed chamber 11 having a reduced central outlet 12 in the bottom 13 which establishes communication with a subterposed chamber 14 occupying the space between the bottom 13 of the chamber 11 and the bottom 15 of the receptacle 10. The chamber let is provided with an outlet 16 through a,=threaded1neck 17 over which a closure :cap 1 8';i-s normally arranged. The uppenend of thewcharnberll terminates ina laterally, bent; neck 19 which extends through the side of the receptacle 10 to provide an exteriorly threaded filling nozzle 20 upon which a closure cap 21 is mounted, In practice the Water or other drinking fluid A is received in the receptacle 10 and ice in dicated at B is placed in the'chamber 11 to provide a cooling agent for cooling and cle 10.

By this construction it will be seen that a receptacle is provided for drinking water or other drinking fluids which affords means for receiving a cooling agent for the contents thereof in order that said cooling agent may be separated therefrom. The device will be found especially useful in private homes, sick rooms, hospitals, restaurants, or other public places, to afford a receptacle for cold beverages, and this without impairing the quality of the beverage by the elimination of the common unsanitary practice of placing ice of unknown quality directly in the beverage.

We claim: i

1. A receptacle for liquids comprising a cylindrical body having a convex bottom, an integral cylindrical member extending up- Wardly from said bottom-with the upper.

end turned laterally and extending through the side of said body below its upper end, a horizontal partition in the central member having an aperture establishing communication between the upper portion of the memberand the lower portion thereof and Sub dividing said receptacle into an outer receiv ing compartment for the liquid, an interior upper ice receiving compartment and a lower interior drain water chamber, an outlet nozzle for the drain water'chamber extending lying within the concavity formed at the 1.10 below the central portion of the bottom and i low the partition, an opening in the bottom of the receptacle communicating with the space below the partition, and a closure cap therefor, the said innerreceptacle adapted to receive ice above the partition, the space below the same adapted to receive the drain water from the ice, and the opening in the bottom constituting means for withdrawing the drain water without the necessity of emptying the pitcher of its contents.

JAMES RAGGIO. e FRANK BONGIORNI. 

